This date in Weekender history

OK, OK, I know you’ve gotten used to seeing this on Fridays in the three whole weeks I’ve been doing it. I was off Friday. Sorry. Here they are & highlights of Weekenders 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Enjoy!

Nov. 29, 2002

Events: Wow! Look how late in the month we’re having the Holiday River Parade! Talk about a compact holiday season; this year’s looks like the extended dance mix in comparison. TV newsman John Quinones was the anchor, since the Krayolas — that band for all floating parades — was years away from re-forming.

Also George Carlin was in town at the Majestic. In a conversation with staff writer Hector Saldana, he talked about the two hecklers ejected from a Majestic show in 2000 (“Calm down. It’s not a (expletive) rodeo,” he said before security stepped in) and mentioned some topics of his new material — teen suicide, the first enema and the Ten Commandments.

Also also, there’s a preview of the WWE Tour of Defiance coming to the SBC Center. One of the main attractions was a three-way tag-team match that featured Eddie Guerrero (found dead in a hotel room in 2005 of steroid-related heart failure) and Chris Benoit (who took out his wife, son and then himself in June).

Music: I love events named after me. The second “Robert Johnson’s S.A. Sessions Festival” starring David “Honeyboy” Edwards was set for the Sheraton Gunter. Unfortunately, it was to celebrate the famous bluesman, not my funniest Weekender headlines. Also in town — the Goo Goo Dolls and Lisa Loeb at the Majestic.

Nov. 28, 1997

Events: The usual stuff (Holiday River Parade), plus the since-discontinued A Little Christmas Village event in La Villita.

Movies: “Alien Resurrection,” “Flubber,” “Mortal Kombat Annihilation.” Plus the celebrated documentary “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,” from Errol Morris, director of “The Thin Blue Line” and “Gates of Heaven.” And look at this — a Robert Johnson movie review! I reviewed the Neil Young concert/road film “Year of the Horse” billed as “Express-News Occasional Movie Critic.” I gave it two stars and said they guys looked really old and like they weren’t having any fun. I even got to do a “Robert says” that read “Old men — take a look at their lives.”

Music: Oh, no! It’s Yes! The band, which included Jon Anderson, Chris Squire and Steve Howe, played the Majestic. Free-lancer David Glessner interviewed bassist Squire, who listed his favorite bass players as Paul McCartney, Bill Wyman, John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, Flea and Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) and said of his famous part in the hit “Roundabout,” “I often think back and ask myself, ‘How the (expletive) did I come up with that?’ ” Also in town: Smash Mouth, Luis Miguel, Gatemouth Brown (who died in 2005).

Nov. 27, 1992

Events: Uh, two guesses … Holiday River Parade? Correct! And the grand mashal was Alex Trebek of “Jeopardy” fame.

Music: Jim Beal Jr. talks to Mary Chapin Carpenter, who played the Majestic. She complained that people couldn’t wrap their minds around the fact that they shouldn’t call her Mary. “My first name is Mary Chapin … (calling me Mary) is just like calling Jobeth ‘Jo.’ ” I also did a preview of Bruce Springsteen’s show in Dallas (the only Texas date on that tour) without the E-Street Band.